Apart from creating the longest title for a question, I'm also attempting to create 10 language modules for my program which contain about 40 words and phrases.
In my travels as a newbie I've come accross a method of declaring program wide variables in a (e.g.) "dutch.pl" module, which simply looks like this:

%language = qw( blue => blauw, red => rood);

And called by

require "dutch.pl";

No use strict, no use Exporter... etc, just variable declarations
Its simplicity appeals to me - however I'm assuming it's unsafe as I've not seen it used often. I thought about using a DB_File but the file must be plain text as I'm sending the files to friends for translation.
Any recommendations as to how to go about this simple task?
thanks

In reply to Translation modules and the importation of global language variables by traxlog

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